Ice-elevator



(No Model.)

S. A. MORTON.

ICE ELEVATOR.-

No. 256,155.. Patented Apr. 11, 1882.

WITNESSES if By zqlr'flttorney UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SILAS A. MORTON, OF FRIENDSHIP, MAINE.

- ICE-ELEVATO R.

'SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent'No. 256,155, dated April 11, 1882.

Application filed February 28, 1882. (No model.)

have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Ice-Elevators; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a partof this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective view of my invention, and Fig. 2 a top plan view of the truck and its attachment.

The present invention has relation to certain new and useful improvements in machines for raising and elevating ice from ponds and rivers; and the object thereof is to provide a simple and effective means by which the ice, after being cut into cakes or pieces of the required size, is carried from out the water up a suitable railway to the ice-house or place of deposit, where it is packed. These objects I attain by the construction substantially as shown in the drawings, and hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Arepresents two inclined tracks which extend tothe icehouse, said tracks attheir lower ends connecting with a horizontal trough, B, for" receiving the cakes of ice while in the water.

Narrow joists or strips a form a bed to support the cakes of ice as they are being carried to the place of deposit. The strips a are disposed horizontally within the trough B, and then are inclined upward a certain distance, and again horizontally the required distance to the ice-house. Timbers I) keep the cakes of ice separatedand from striking against each other, the trough B being of any desirable width to receive two, three, or more cakes of ice, as found desirable.

A truck, 0, of any desirable construction,

and provided with the usual truck-wheels, c,

rides upon the tracks A, it being hauled by a rope or chain from a donkey-engine or horsepower. To the truck 0 are swivclcd or pivoted arms 0, ofthe desired length, having connected to the outer ends a beam, D, thereby enabling the cross-beam to have a motion up and down by the swinging of the arms. The cross-beam or head D has projecting from its outer side curved rodsf, and upon its inner side spurs g, which come in contact with the end of the cakes of ice and prevent the cross-beam or head from being pulled over the end of the cakes during the process of elevating them.

The cakes of ice, which are represented at w, are in position to be elevated, and as the truck 0 descends the track A the curve in the rodsf, as they strike the inner end of the cakes 09, will cause the cross-beam D to be elevated over the upper surface of the cakes until the beam is carried by the truck over the outer or opposite end of the cake, as shown in Fig. 1. In this position the truck 0 is carried up the inclined tracks A, taking with it the cakes of ice, which are carried to the place of deposit.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an ice-elevator having the usual inclined tracks and bed for supporting the cakes of ice, the combination, with the truck 0, of the swinging arms 0 and cross-beam or headD, carrying the curved rodsf, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with the inclined tracks A, horizontal trough B, strips a, and timbers b, of the truck (J, having pivot-ed thereto arms 0, carrying cross-beam or head D, curved rods f, and spurs g, substantially as and for the purpose specitied.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

SILAS A. MORTON.

Witnesses:

EVERETT J. 000K, 0. W. WoTToN. 

